The Marine Museum at Fall River is a cultural gem and contains a wealth of Fall River Maritime History especially Steam Ship and Titanic memorabilia. Discover the art, books, models and many treasures the Marine Museum holds. This is a must see
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The Marine Museum at Fall River is a cultural gem and contains a wealth of Fall River Maritime History especially Steam Ship and Titanic memorabilia. Discover the art, books, models and many treasures the Marine Museum holds. This is a must see resource for landlubbers and mariners alike.

Carol Gafford is a public librarian, family historian, amateur archivist and book savior. She is currently the youth services/outreach librarian at the Swansea Public Library and volunteers for several museum and historical societies including the Marine Museum at Fall River, the Swansea Historical Society and the Bristol Historical and Preservation society. She is the editor of Past Times, the Massachusetts Society of Genealogists and is always looking for a new project to take on.

WILMINGTON — The Bruins won’t have many practice days available the rest of the season, and coach Claude Julien was forced to adapt without a third of his roster Tuesday.

With seven players suffering from flu-like symptoms, Julien had just three forward lines in practice. Backup goalie Anton Khodobin was among the sick, so the coaching staff put two horizontal pads across the bottom half of one of the nets.

"You ad-lib," Julien said. "There’s still some stuff we could do with our group that would benefit our team. We put those drills together and made the best of it."

Julien found out Monday night and Tuesday morning the players would be out. Assistant coach Doug Jarvis also missed practice.

"We made the most of what we had," Julien said. "I thought it was still a good practice day. If you want to look at the bright side, better now than Thursday morning. Hopefully we’ll have it all taken care of by then."

The Bruins are scheduled to fly to Florida on Wednesday morning and practice in Tampa in the afternoon before Thursday’s game vs. the Lightning. If call-ups are needed from Providence, it’ll happen Wednesday, according to Julien.

"We’re hoping it’s a short-term thing, which it seems to be," he said. "It’s that the case (to call up players), we’d do that tomorrow, if that was the case."

With so many absences, the lines were a mess compared to the normal formations. Chris Bourque skated in a white jersey as a top-liner. Rich Peverley took Bergeron’s spot centering the second line. The other four forwards all wore maroon jerseys.